Book recommendations: Drax & Meta
How money from the slave trade is still influencing British politics — and the inside story of the people in Facebook that ended up upending society.
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TikTok made me love it
A new genre of fiction is filling up the bestseller lists. And guess what's putting it there?
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Catch-up Digital Digest #1: revenue, vaccines and more
Welcome to the 2021. Let's catch-up. Or try to, at least.
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Amazon relies on your own laziness
Getting my fix of futurology cheaper than Amazon provides it…
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Quartz is five and heading back to the future: with print
Blimey [https://qz.com/1069982/thank-you-readers-quartz-is-turning-five-years-old-heres-what-comes-next/] : > This month we are proud to celebrate Quartz’s fifth birthday and share with you our latest plans. That happened quickly. They’ve got a number of initiatives in the works, including: * Quartz at Work — More general in-workplace coverage: management issues, careers and
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One man's passionate rejection of the Kindle
The best argument I’ve seen for not owning a Kindle [http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2015/12/21/unkindle/] > Books don’t just contain stories. Each individual book is also a story. Particularly when you’re dealing with books that have been around for some time, the provenance of the
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The digital responsibility of Generation X
Gen Xers – or, at least, those of us born before 1985 – have a responsibility, according to an interesting Quartz piece about Michael Harris [http://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/] : > Being in this situation puts us in a privileged position.”If we’re the last people in history to know life
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What She Left - an old friend makes a thriller from a tweet
Very long term readers of this blog will be familiar with the name Tim Relf. Mr Relf is a journalist on that fine organ Farmers Weekly, and the point blogger on Field Day [http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/rural-life/], a rural life blog referred to on here more than
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Kindle Unlimited: the Spotify or Netflix of books
Well, it was rumoured earlier in the week, and now it’s official: Amazon has announced Kindle Unlimited [http://www.amazon.com/kindleunlimited] in the US. What do you get? Unlimited access to a library of books for $9.99 a month. > Amazon.com today introduced Kindle Unlimited—a
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31-3.4 The Best Practice Delusion
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/81S5RrVaWUL._SL1500_-3577.html] I’ve been reading – and throughly enjoying – Leander Kahney’s book about Jony Ive [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241001773/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=
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People love genre ebooks
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/ebook-fanatasy-ibooks.jpg] Talking of eBooks, it appears that some categories of books are booming in digital formats [http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/06/digital-publishing-genre-fiction/]: > “Certain categories [of eBooks] have a much larger digital adoption than others,” Dobson
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The cozy glow of format nostalgia
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/book-formats-new-old.jpg] There’s an interesting post on Teleread by Chris Meadows that digs into the reflexive dislike of eReaders [http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/paper-books-vs-e-books-and-the-clash-of-bookstore-cultures/] that many people have: > When people say they like paper books, the